Interesting post, and a warning..

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Saying that more of the blue population hacked is just a complete fabrication. You can't possibly have any empirical evidence on what percentage of the VZTZ population hacked versus the percentage of the p99 population, since VZTZ never had any reliable cheat detection mechanisms. Claiming that "half the server" got banned is laughable considering the average population was barely affected after the 365 accounts were suspended. Just because 700 people log on every night doesn't mean that it's always the same 700 people, I know this is hard to fathom but project 1999 actually has a healthy population (something VZTZ never had) and tens of thousands of people have accounts on that server.

If we don't have any empirical evidence either way, we can go by anecdotal evidence which suggests that more people on red servers hack, and that they tend to hack more often. This isn't necessarily because red players are less skilled (although a quick glance at the "big names" on VZTZ would certainly give you this impression), but because there's a big element of competition and ego boosting on pvp servers that isn't as prominent on blue servers. Moreover, if you hacked on VZTZ and got caught (which wasn't likely to happen, since p99 has always had superior cheat detection methods) it wouldn't take nearly as long to level up a new character as it would on p99.